First Semester

Yes, it's pretty hard to balance family, work and studies but with all the learnings I get, both personally and professionally...I'm still all for it! I love this class! :)

Burnin' Brows

I've been reviewing for the past several hours. My only break was when we fetched my daughter from school. My form of stretching is talking to my classmates over YM. And we are all kind of buried on our work and on going over our book for the exam tomorrow. Well, good luck to us!

I have till Saturday to think over if I will enroll this semester or not. I want to but I have to manage my time.

On to other things.....

A day before Milenyo hit Metro Manila, my cousin Peachie gave birth to a cute baby girl she nicknamed Wazi. Wazi is the youngest in the clan so far. By next year, it will be my brother's baby who will get the title of being the youngest in the clan, both mother and father side.

A baby is always a welcome addition in a family. My daughter loves babies. :) She's so fond of her cousin.

Been Here & There, Doing This & That

Work, school, managing the household, (well, partly managing it since the husband has his lion's share of running the home), budgeting, meeting with friends, weighing my options on important matters.....these are the things that I was preoccupied with the past weeks. But aren't these also what most people are busy pondering about almost everyday of their lives?

I keep on postponing updating this little space of mine. Didn't I tell myself this is one of my stress relievers? Why on earth am I setting this aside? So for a quick shot at this, let me post some pictures to sort of chronicle what transpired the past weeks.

Ours is the last group to report for our MANACC class. I was thankful the business review at the office was rescheduled for this week. I cannot miss this very important activity. We prepared for it like we are gearing up for some battle that we have to win at all cost. We have to meet several times after work so we can polish our report. I am so grateful to have my groupmates since all of them are very cooperative, very enthusiastic and everybody contributes his fair share. And our Mommy Anj is ever so caring and ever so motherly. Needless to say, school and the learnings I get from the different sharings in our class recharge me. MM MBA program is like an end in itself for me. Anyway, the report was good though we ended the class at half past nine pm already. The picture on the left was supposed to be part of our closing credits in the video presentation.

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Had lunch with my good friends at the office a few weeks back at one of our favorite restos in the area where I used to work. Thanks to our "Mother" for the treat! You're the best! Anyway, it's at Santis Deli, located at the ground floor of Astoria Plaza, Ortigas. I love not only their cold cuts but their healthy snacks. There's one there which I always buy but have not memorized the name. It's like KitKat chocolate, only creamier. But what we go back for at Santis is their Angus beef. 100 grams is enough for one person. Though for guys, they usually order 120 or 150 grams. Ubos pa rin nila. :)

At Santis

Yummy Angus beef!

This will be a very busy week starting tomorrow. What week is not, tell me? :) I do want to post and update here the rest of the "happenings" the past weeks. I hope I can do that within the week. I'm quite ganado to blog and blog and blog hop.

Time to hit the bed! :)

@Work and @ Play

***Second avatar edited coz my daughter tinkered with it. Result, my avatar was gone and was replaced by her own.*** See her blog here. :)

I have been tinkering with these avatars with my daughter a few minutes ago. Multi-tasking actually. Cooking, checking the washing machine and doing these avatars in between.

It was fun doing them. My daughter had a grand time creating avatars of everyone in the family including her friends.

Anyway, these are what I've come up with. My avatars at work and when I'm just going around malls. Although a few extra pounds will make this more realistic. Not my fault, the sample body form is generic. :)

Avatars courtesy of meez.com

My Library

I've signed up in Library Thing. It sure helped me catalogued my books. I don't know if this happens to you but there are times when I am in a bookstore, I get lost with what to buy with all the great titles and stories on the shelves. There are times I have something on my mind but I get distracted. So far, there are five books I haven't read yet and all of them are gifts from officemates.

Library Thing has a pretty good list of books which I don't have yet. I am raring to finish all my "pending" books and buy some more. Books give me a real high.

Some of my books are displayed in the side bar.

Of all the books I bought, I was greatly disappointed with Tuesdays with Morrie. Same old, same old. I promised not to buy any book by Mitch Albom. Everything is so cliche in Tuesday's...

I am hooked with Haruki Murakami books. I like his style. He captures emotions so eloquently. No matter how weird his plot goes, he still connects with his readers. One can still adapt and participate in his storytelling.

Tween

It was my daughter's 8th birthday yesterday. I went on leave from work to help my Tita prepare some food. It's a Tuesday so she has classes and to top it all, their week-long mastery test started yesterday. A celebration in the afternoon is not
possible since she has to review for the following day's exam. We called off inviting her friends in the neighborhood. A simple celebration will be next week.

How time flies. She's eight! And as my husband always say, eight years ago, we were at a lost on what to do, how to handle our daughter since she looked so fragile as all the babies look when they're bundled in a baby blanket.

Well, now, our baby is officially a tween.

She loves The Suite Life of Zach and Codie and pretends it's Tipton Hotel at whatever hotel we go to. She even made this the wallpaper in our PC. She also wants a guitar. I recently found out why. Because Emma Roberts' character in Unfabulous sings her 'sentiments' out while playing a guitar. And lately, she is so into High School Musical, even singing the theme song she memorized by heart. Like me, she's into books too, browsing on The Silver Chair (Chronicles of Narnia, Book 6) these days.

All these Disney and Nickelodeon shows are eating up a good part of her television viewing. She'll outgrow these things of course but at times it enters my mind how the values (or the lack of) these tv shows affect her. Popularity, tween angst (oh yes, tween angst), peer pressure, whining on too much school work, crushes and all that.

Discussing...or talking about the good and the bad on all these is my way of telling my daughter not everything that appears cute on television is alright. A cute outfit does not make a person, having a small set of real friends is better than being popular. And so on and so forth.

Oh well, it's all part of dealing while one is growing up and we're both in it together plus her Daddy of course.